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Lock Haven's founder, Jeremiah Church, and his brother, Willard, chose the town site in 1833 partly because of the river, the creek, and the canal. Church named the town Lock Haven because it had a canal lock and because it was a haven for loggers, boatmen, and other travelers. Over the next quarter century, canal boats 12 feet (4 m) wide and ...
Perpetrator. Leo Held. On October 23, 1967, a mass shooting occurred at several locations in Clinton County, Pennsylvania, United States. The gunman, 40-year-old Leo Held, opened fire at his workplace in Lock Haven, the William T. Piper Memorial Airport, and the home of one of his neighbors in Loganton, killing six people and wounding six others.
72001113. Added to NRHP. March 16, 1972. Heisey House was the first brick dwelling in Lock Haven, county seat of Clinton County, a city built along the West Branch Canal in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Constructed about 1831, the building served as a tavern and inn in its early days, and the town's founder, Jeremiah Church, boarded there.
July 10, 1973. The Water Street District, a large part of downtown Lock Haven in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania, is a historic district added to the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP) in 1973. The district includes the city's entire central business district as well as many homes and churches constructed in the 19th century, especially ...
The West Branch Division of the Pennsylvania Canal ran 73 miles (117 km) from the canal basin at Northumberland, Pennsylvania, at the confluence of the West Branch Susquehanna River with the main stem of the Susquehanna River, north through Muncy, then west through Williamsport, Jersey Shore, and Lock Haven to its terminus in Farrandsville. [4]
The Memorial Park Site (designated 36CN164) is an archaeological site located near the confluence of Bald Eagle Creek and the West Branch Susquehanna River in Lock Haven in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. [2] Research projects conducted at the site since 1979 have found prehistoric cultural deposits that collectively span 8,000 years.
Clinton County is a county in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. As of the 2020 census, the population was 37,450. [3] Its county seat is Lock Haven. [4] Clinton County comprises the Lock Haven, PA Micropolitan Statistical Area, which is also included in the Williamsport -Lock Haven, PA Combined Statistical Area.
Lock Haven University of Pennsylvania ( LHU) is a public university in Lock Haven, Pennsylvania. It is part of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. The main campus consists of 200 acres (81 ha) and the branch campus covers 12.9 acres (5.2 ha). [2] It offers 69 undergraduate programs and 4 graduate programs.